This is David Nicholson, the Chief Executive of the National Health Service, who is paid around aquarter of a million pounds a year and gets £37,600 "Housing Allowance"because rather like Mr & Mrs Ed Blinking Twat Balls he maintains that his residence is oooop North.

SAN DIEGO - The agency that manages the state's electrical-service grid blamed its own personnel Tuesday for a blackout that left roughly aquarter-million San Diego County homes and businesses without power for about 45 minutes last week.